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Evacuating apparatus

US6375431B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateNov 15, 2000
Grant dateApr 23, 2002
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Expiry dateNov 15, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF04C28/08
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An evacuating apparatus having a high energy efficiency when the suction side pressure has reached the ultimate pressure or become a certain degree of vacuum, by decreasing the motive power owing to differential pressure. The evacuating apparatus (100) having a roughing vacuum pump (B) and a booster pump (A), each of which is constituted by a screw vacuum pump, wherein the design pumping speed of the roughing vacuum pump (B) is sufficiently smaller than the design pumping speed of the booster pump (A), but adequate to be operable as the roughing vacuum pump, and the number of turns of screw for the booster pump (A) is less than the number of turns of screw for the roughing vacuum pump (B).

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